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title: Everyone gets older: grey hair, glasses and stiffer knees come, but… — Being a good grown-up · tree and pragmatics
description: Everyone gets older: grey hair, glasses and stiffer knees come, but so do experience and wisdom. Who acts: Everyone, grey hair, experience. A sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-up» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Being a good grown-up, sentence 13

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Everyone gets older: grey hair, glasses and stiffer knees come, but so do experience and wisdom.

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**Who acts:** Everyone, grey hair, experience · **What happens:** get, come, do

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being a good grown-up» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, grey hair, experience), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson:13
# text = Everyone gets older: grey hair, glasses and stiffer knees come, but so do experience and wisdom.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 040-being-a-good-grown-up.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	stiffer	stiff	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Everyone |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | grey hair and glasses and stiffer knees |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present | experience and wisdom |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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